Convert Image to SVG

Scalable Vector Graphics — an image stored as mathematical paths and shapes instead of a grid of pixels. Because the shapes are recalculated at whatever size you display them, an SVG is exactly as sharp as an icon and as a billboard.

Logos, icons, line art and simple illustrations — anything with clear shapes and strong contrast between subject and background. That is what tracing is good at.

You can, but manage your expectations. Tracing turns a photograph into a small number of flat shapes, so you get a stylised, poster-like interpretation rather than the photo in vector form. For a portrait or a landscape that is usually an effect, not a conversion.

No — and this is the thing most people expect it to do. The tracer works on light and dark, not hue, so the layers come out as one colour at different opacities. It gives you depth and shading, not a separation of the blues from the reds. If you need true colour vectors, trace to a clean shape here and recolour the paths in vector software.

Black & White finds one edge and gives you a single clean outline — the right choice for cutting, engraving and logos. The layered mode splits the image into up to four tonal levels, which keeps more of the original's shading at the cost of a busier file.

In Black & White mode it decides where the line between subject and background falls. Raise it to capture more of the image as filled shape, lower it to keep only the darkest areas. It is the first thing to adjust when a trace comes out too heavy or too sparse.

It sets the smallest speck the tracer will bother to keep. Turn it up to drop noise and stray dots; turn it down to preserve fine detail, at the cost of a messier result on a grainy source.

Yes. PNG is the best starting point of the raster formats, because it is lossless — there are no compression artefacts around edges to confuse the tracer.

Yes. Be aware that JPG has no transparency, so whatever background is in the photo gets traced as part of the design, and JPG compression artefacts around hard edges can make a trace noisier than the same image as PNG.

Partly, and not the way people expect. The alpha channel itself is not preserved — the tracer flattens it. What does happen is that the SVG contains only the traced paths and no background, so anything outside those paths is transparent in the result.

PNG, JPG, WEBP, GIF, BMP, TIFF and AVIF, up to 20 MB each. GIF animation is not part of the conversion — only the frame is traced.

Yes, that is much of the point. Open it in Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity or Figma and every path is a separate object you can recolour, reshape or delete.

No. Nothing is stretched — the shapes are recalculated at the new size. The quality ceiling is set by how good the original trace was, not by how large you display it.

Yes. SVG is the standard format for Cricut Design Space and Silhouette Studio, and Black & White mode is the one to use — a cutting machine wants a single clean outline, not tonal layers.

Yes. SVG is a standard vector format, opened natively by Illustrator, Inkscape, Affinity Designer, Figma and essentially every vector tool.

Usually the source is too detailed or too low-contrast. Raise the detail setting to drop speckles, adjust the threshold, or start from a cleaner image — removing the background first often does more than any setting here.

No. The image is traced in memory and the SVG is returned in the same request. Nothing is written to disk or saved to a database.

Yes — no account, no email, no watermark.